A Salt Lake City local news site called Gephardt Daily have acquired the arrest affidavit against pardoned Capitol rioter John Banuelos and found that, although the warrant was issued in September 2025, the sexual assault and kidnapping charges against him date to a June 2018 incident for which DNA evidence collected was matched to the MAGA terrorist only this year.
Sick story short, Banuelos approached a woman at a TRAX light rail station and invited her to his house for a party, and when she arrived, “there was no furniture and no party. (She) said Banuelos began touching her legs, and she told him to stop.” Banuelos then made her smoke something, which caused her to go limp and defenseless, after which he sexually assaulted her repeatedly.
Following the DNA match a warrant was issued and Banuelos was cuffed in the Chicago area nine months into his newfound freedom from pretrial custody following convicted felon President Trump’s blanket amnesty for the January 6th insurrectionists. Banuelos had fired a gun into the air outside the Capitol during the MAGA mayhem, something which he was charged with in March 2024.
During that period Banuelos fatally stabbed a guy in Salt Lake City on July 4, 2021 but the DA dropped the case on a self-defense claim. Gephardt’s article also mentions that Banuelos has “failed to appear for hearings in cases related to domestic violence, interfering with an officer and disorderly conduct” and “also has an unresolved case in Salt Lake County based on a domestic violence assault allegation. Warrants also were issued in those cases,” this latest warrant says.
The timing of those warrants is unclear, which leaves three possibilities: (1) They were issued for crimes that Banuelos committed this year, after the Orange God Emperor sprung him from jail while he was awaiting federal trial on the January 6th charges (2) The Reich’s Bureau of Prisons failed to check if he had any open warrants and remand him to the custody of cops in Utah (and Banuelos would not be the first such case of such negligence) or (3) Some combination thereof.
None of which is a good look for the fat fuck. It is however still a muddy, muted one. Had Banuelos been arrested and charged with a rape that he had committed this year you in all likelihood would be seeing a lot of coverage of it. The current tally of post-pardon 2025 criminal charges for Capitol rioters stands at four and only one of those, Zach Alam, was not already back out on the street on January 20th. Banuelos and fellow scumbag Andrew Taake belong in a separate category of those being sought on unrelated state-level charges but were released from federal custody anyway.